虚而虚之 虛而虛之
虚而虚之虛而虛之 in English
- (idiom) To be weak while deliberately displaying weakness, causing the enemy to mistakenly believe that one is strong. It is a strategy of deception.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
虚
These are the forms of 虛, the traditional character: 虚 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
而
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 16 forms
之
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).